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fixie commented on Ask HN: Did Twilio abandon SendGrid?    · Posted by u/leros
leros · a year ago
I'm using this just for transactional emails. I have another solution for marketing emails.

I was using SendGrid's WYSIWYG templates for many emails, but I'm re-doing them in my own code so that I can more easily change providers in the future. I'll just need the ability to send HTML emails.

I'm trying out MailTrap.

fixie · a year ago
If you are looking for just the visual email template builder part, check out EmailBuilder.js (https://github.com/usewaypoint/email-builder-js) - it's a free and open-source builder that also has a hosted playground.
fixie commented on Ask HN: Did Twilio abandon SendGrid?    · Posted by u/leros
fixie · a year ago
I think they've simply continued going up market and care less about smaller players.

If you are looking for transactional emails with a tightly integrated template builder, check out Waypoint. We're an alternative and have some different approaches: https://www.usewaypoint.com/compare/sendgrid-email-api-alter...

fixie commented on Plunk: The open source email platform   github.com/useplunk/plunk... · Posted by u/petecooper
bgentry · a year ago
Having recently adopted Resend and skimmed a bunch of different email APIs, I'm still waiting to find a single provider whose API supports Stripe-style idempotency [1] so that I can guarantee I don't send the same email through their API multiple times. I'd like to confidently avoid accidentally spamming a user if i.e. a background job retries multiple times due to an unrelated error, or merely from failing to receive the API response that an email was sent/created successfully.

Plunk's API does not appear to offer any such feature: https://docs.useplunk.com/api-reference/transactional/send

Unfortunately neither does Resend, Sendgrid, Postmark, etc.

[1]: https://docs.stripe.com/api/idempotent_requests

fixie · a year ago
Be sure to check out Waypoint (usewaypoint.com). It's an email API with a tightly integrated template builder and has idempotent requests (https://www.usewaypoint.com/docs/idempotent-requests).
Posted by u/fixie 2 years ago
Emailbuilder.js – a free and open-source block-based email template buildergithub.com/usewaypoint/em...
Posted by u/fixie 2 years ago
The case for a transactional email template builderusewaypoint.com/blog/the-...

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Posted by u/fixie 3 years ago
Sending transactional emails in 2023 – what was missing?usewaypoint.com/blog/send...
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Transactional emails, the glue of UX for marketplacesusewaypoint.com/blog/tran...
fixie commented on Diving into BoardGameGeek   jvanelteren.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/fixie
fixie · 4 years ago
Additional interesting discussion/context within the BGG community: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2797942/did-some-data-analy...
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